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When cats yawns they look terrifying, I love it.

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The person who ran next to your car when you were a child.

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@ new users remember to set your dash to chronological. I think old users will forget to tell you this because tumblr never randomly resets it like twitter does, so afaik literally everybody switched over to chrono as soon as they tried to introduce non-chrono, and then promptly forgot tumblr even has a non-chrono view. on tumblr we really dont do the “all mighty algorithm” thing.

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So this has been stuck in my head ever since I heard it three days ago.

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The area was silent and still as the little boat quietly glided through the water. Despite the disturbance of the moving vessel, the river still somehow remained completely placid, almost mirror like as it reflected the grey skies through the skeletal canopy. 

The trees themselves were black and leafless, limbs reaching from either side of the river to meet each other high above, weaving together to form a perfect arch above the slim path of water. The reflective surface of the water almost hid its strange inky blackness from sight, though it became far more obvious as the first few snow flakes came to rest upon its surface.

The slim boat continued on its slow winding path, moving seemingly without guidance as it ferried its cargo further and further down the river. Slowly, a thick mist began to roll across the land, silently moving along the surface of the water as the boat grew nearer. 

Through the thick fog, there was a flash of shimmering white scales as something moved within the ever placid waters, it’s coils slowly peaking above the mirror like surface every now and then as it and the fog grew ever closer to the vessel and it’s precious cargo.

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me, a fanfic writer: *touches my new fav character’s face* *whispers* I’m gonna get you laid

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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. “Do I look like a fool?” said the frog. “You’d sting me if I let you on my back!”

“Be logical,” said the scorpion. “If I stung you I’d certainly drown myself.”

“That’s true,” the frog acknowledged. “Climb aboard, then!” But no sooner than they were halfway across the river, the scorpion stung the frog, and they both began to thrash and drown. “Why on earth did you do that?” the frog said morosely. “Now we’re both going to die.” 

“I can’t help it,” said the scorpion. “It’s my nature.”

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…But no sooner than they were halfway across the river, the frog felt a subtle motion on its back, and in a panic dived deep beneath the rushing waters, leaving the scorpion to drown.

“It was going to sting me anyway,” muttered the frog, emerging on the other side of the river. “It was inevitable. You all knew it. Everyone knows what those scorpions are like. It was self-defense.”

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…But no sooner had they cast off from the bank, the frog felt the tip of a stinger pressed lightly against the back of its neck. “What do you think you’re doing?” said the frog.

“Just a precaution,” said the scorpion. “I cannot sting you without drowning. And now, you cannot drown me without being stung. Fair’s fair, isn’t it?”

They swam in silence to the other end of the river, where the scorpion climbed off, leaving the frog fuming.

“After the kindness I showed you!” said the frog. “And you threatened to kill me in return?”

“Kindness?” said the scorpion. “To only invite me on your back after you knew I was defenseless, unable to use my tail without killing myself? My dear frog, I only treated you as I was treated. Your kindness was as poisoned as a scorpion’s sting.”

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…“Just a precaution,” said the scorpion. “I cannot sting you without drowning. And now, you cannot drown me without being stung. Fair’s fair, isn’t it?”

“You have a point,” the frog acknowledged. “But once we get to dry land, couldn’t you sting me then without repercussion?”

“All I want is to cross the river safely,” said the scorpion. “Once I’m on the other side I would gladly let you be.”

“But I would have to trust you on that,” said the frog. “While you’re pressing a stinger to my neck. By ferrying you to land I’d be be giving up the one deterrent I hold over you.”

“But by the same logic, I can’t possibly withdraw my stinger while we’re still over water,” the scorpion protested.

The frog paused in the middle of the river, treading water. “So, I suppose we’re at an impasse.”

The river rushed around them. The scorpion’s stinger twitched against the frog’s unbroken skin. “I suppose so,” the scorpion said.

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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. “Absolutely not!” said the frog, and dived beneath the waters, and so none of them learned anything.

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A scorpion, being unable to swim, asked a turtle (as in the original Persian version of the fable) to carry it across the river. The turtle readily agreed, and allowed the scorpion aboard its shell. Halfway across, the scorpion gave in to its nature and stung, but failed to penetrate the turtle’s thick shell. The turtle, swimming placidly, failed to notice.

They reached the other side of the river, and parted ways as friends.

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…Halfway across, the scorpion gave in to its nature and stung, but failed to penetrate the turtle’s thick shell.

The turtle, hearing the tap of the scorpion’s sting, was offended at the scorpion’s ungratefulness. Thankfully, having been granted the powers to both defend itself and to punish evil, the turtle sank beneath the waters and drowned the scorpion out of principle.

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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. “Do I look like a fool?” sneered the frog. “You’d sting me if I let you on my back.”

The scorpion pleaded earnestly. “Do you think so little of me? Please, I must cross the river. What would I gain from stinging you? I would only end up drowning myself!”

“That’s true,” the frog acknowledged. “Even a scorpion knows to look out for its own skin. Climb aboard, then!”

But as they forged through the rushing waters, the scorpion grew worried. This frog thinks me a ruthless killer, it thought. Would it not be justified in throwing me off now and ridding the world of me? Why else would it agree to this? Every jostle made the scorpion more and more anxious, until the frog surged forward with a particularly large splash, and in panic the scorpion lashed out with its stinger.

“I knew it,” snarled the frog, as they both thrashed and drowned. “A scorpion cannot change its nature.”

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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. The frog agreed, but no sooner than they were halfway across the scorpion stung the frog, and they both began to thrash and drown.

“I’ve only myself to blame,” sighed the frog, as they both sank beneath the waters. “You, you’re a scorpion, I couldn’t have expected anything better. But I knew better, and yet I went against my judgement! And now I’ve doomed us both!”

“You couldn’t help it,” said the scorpion mildly. “It’s your nature.” 

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…“Why on earth did you do that?” the frog said morosely. “Now we’re both going to die.”

“Alas, I was of two natures,” said the scorpion. “One said to gratefully ride your back across the river, and the other said to sting you where you stood. And so both fought, and neither won.” It smiled wistfully. “Ah, it would be nice to be just one thing, wouldn’t it? Unadulterated in nature. Without the capacity for conflict or regret.”

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“By the way,” said the frog, as they swam, “I’ve been meaning to ask: What’s on the other side of the river?”

“It’s the journey,” said the scorpion. “Not the destination.”

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…“What’s on the other side of anything?” said the scorpion. “A new beginning.”

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…”Another scorpion to mate with,” said the scorpion. “And more prey to kill, and more living bodies to poison, and a forthcoming lineage of cruelties that you will be culpable in.”

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…”Nothing we will live to see, I fear,” said the scorpion. “Already the currents are growing stronger, and the river seems like it shall swallow us both. We surge forward, and the shoreline recedes. But does that mean our striving was in vain?”

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“I love you,” said the scorpion.

The frog glanced upward. “Do you?”

“Absolutely. Can you imagine the fear of drowning? Of course not. You’re a frog. Might as well be scared of breathing air. And yet here I am, clinging to your back, as the waters rage around us. Isn’t that love? Isn’t that trust? Isn’t that necessity? I could not kill you without killing myself. Are we not inseparable in this?”

The frog swam on, the both of them silent.

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“I’m so tired,” murmured the frog eventually. “How much further to the other side? I don’t know how long we’ve been swimming. I’ve been treading water. And it’s getting so very dark.”

“Shh,” the scorpion said. “Don’t be afraid.”

The frog’s legs kicked out weakly. “How long has it been? We’re lost. We’re lost! We’re doomed to be cast about the waters forever. There is no land. There’s nothing on the other side, don’t you see!”

“Shh, shh,” said the scorpion. “My venom is a hallucinogenic. Beneath its surface, the river is endlessly deep, its currents carrying many things.” 

“You - You’ve killed us both,” said the frog, and began to laugh deliriously. “Is this - is this what it’s like to drown?” 

“We’ve killed each other,” said the scorpion soothingly. “My venom in my glands now pulsing through your veins, the waters of your birthing pool suffusing my lungs. We are engulfing each other now, drowning in each other. I am breathless. Do you feel it? Do you feel my sting pierced through your heart?”

“What a foolish thing to do,” murmured the frog. “No logic. No logic to it at all.”

“We couldn’t help it,” whispered the scorpion. “It’s our natures. Why else does anything in the world happen? Because we were made for this from birth, darling, every moment inexplicable and inevitable. What a crazy thing it is to fall in love, and yet - It’s all our fault! We are both blameless. We’re together now, darling. It couldn’t have happened any other way.”

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“It’s funny,” said the frog. “I can’t say that I trust you, really. Or that I even think very much of you and that nasty little stinger of yours to begin with. But I’m doing this for you regardless. It’s strange, isn’t it? It’s strange. Why would I do this? I want to help you, want to go out of my way to help you. I let you climb right onto my back! Now, whyever would I go and do a foolish thing like that?”

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A scorpion, not knowing how to swim, asked a frog to carry it across the river. “Do I look like a fool?” said the frog. “You’d sting me if I let you on my back!”

“Be logical,” said the scorpion. “If I stung you I’d certainly drown myself.”  

“That’s true,” the frog acknowledged. “Come aboard, then!” But no sooner had the scorpion mounted the frog’s back than it began to sting, repeatedly, while still safely on the river’s bank.

The frog groaned, thrashing weakly as the venom coursed through its veins, beginning to liquefy its flesh. “Ah,” it muttered. “For some reason I never considered this possibility.”

“Because you were never scared of me,” the scorpion whispered in its ear. “You were never scared of dying. In a past life you wore a shell and sat in judgement. And then you were reborn: soft-skinned, swift, unburdened, as new and vulnerable as a child, moving anew through a world of children. How could anyone ever be cruel, you thought, seeing the precariousness of it all?” The scorpion bowed its head and drank. “How could anyone kill you without killing themselves?”

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Still one of my favorite passages, so funny!

It’s just as well CWN has a lot of self-control since Moran has zero.

I love this passage because it both fits into the themes of the novel (Moran was treated nicer by the masses/cultivation world as TXJ than he was as Mo-zongshi, the most respected sect is the rotten Rufeng Sect, people bitch about CWN who is a freaking living saint, etc) and also is a real-world truth. Once you establish a baseline, people just work off that. They get used to this baseline, whether it’s good or bad, and it’s viewed as the default and any time someone acts better than it, yay and worse than it, oooooh. So if you have a baseline as a really good person, you are honestly fucked.

I just love this line so much. And once again, Moran 2.0 is the warm one, as contrasted by the icy-cold TXJ who seeks warmth from CWN. (I think there might be some stuff I could write about how CWN is always afraid of cold so the fact that he finds Moran a font of warmth and that Moran wants to warm him, is so symbolic, or about how could TXJ must be to find CWN, himself always freezing the one warm thing in the world - and leaching warmth from the person who doesn’t have much - is also heartbreaking, but I am gonna retain some sanity and not do it.)

This is the first time Moran realizes it and it’s such a huge huge red flag of a scene!!!

#2ha novel #chu wanning #mo ran x chu wanning #mo ran 1.0 #mo ran 2.0 #chu fei

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MXTX Translations Masterpost

UPDATED VERSION 10/3/19

Please be aware that NSFW is out there & Please send me a message if I missed anything, I’ll try to update the post! :D

MO DAO ZU SHI - GRANDMASTER OF DEMONIC CULTIVATION - THE FOUNDER OF DIABOLISM

Novel: https://exiledrebelsscanlations.com/grandmaster-of-demonic-cultivation/

Novel, Ch 79 Onwards: https://boat-full-of-lotus-pods.tumblr.com 

Ch. 5-19, Older version: https://qinghe-nie.tumblr.com/Translations 

Ch. 79 to 116:   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V44qlY0RpU4SI_21BCGPJHH3tS_mv6UJ

Manhua: https://exiledrebelsscanlations.com/the-grandmaster-of-demonic-cultivation/

Also some Manhua: http://discluded.tumblr.com/post/182120732921/mdzs-masterlist

The Audio Drama and its extras, & Wangxian duet: https://kittykat2010.tumblr.com/mdzsaudio

More Audio Drama translations, S2: https://sakurahimemtl.wordpress.com

Ch. 94: https://weibuyaolian.tumblr.com/post/178441401686/chapter-94-to-want-all-the-time

Ch. 95 (NSFW): https://weibuyaolian.tumblr.com/post/178900269036/chapter-95-to-want-all-the-time

Another version, Ch 95 (Still, NSFW, duh): http://froliczxc.tumblr.com/post/178487720226/nsfw-spoiler-魔道祖师-原版mo-dao-zu-shi-revised

Ch. 100 (Confession): http://froliczxc.tumblr.com/post/178249552381/spoiler-魔道祖师-原版mo-dao-zu-shi-revised-edition

Ch. 111 (No NSFW): http://froliczxc.tumblr.com/post/177241813621/spoiler-魔道祖师-mo-dao-zu-shi-the-grandmaster

Ch. 111 (NSFW): http://froliczxc.tumblr.com/post/177285752291/nsfw-spoiler-魔道祖师-原版mo-dao-zu-shi-original

Ch. 112: https://pizziccato.tumblr.com/post/182219943701/mo-dao-zu-shi-chapter-112

Family Feast and Yunmengjiang Extras: https://bigbadredpanda.tumblr.com/translations

Metal Hook Extra: https://manhua-assistant.tumblr.com/post/178508057495/mo-dao-zu-shi-side-story-metal-hook-part-12 and

https://manhua-assistant.tumblr.com/post/179890934100/mo-dao-zu-shi-side-story-metal-hook-part-22

Incense Burner Extra (Partial) :

https://linnen.dreamwidth.org/1207.html,

https://linnen.dreamwidth.org/1328.html, and

https://linnen.dreamwidth.org/1863.html

SCUM VILLAIN’S SELF SAVING SYSTEM

Novel and some extras: http://bcnovels.com/the-scum-villains-self-saving-system/

More extras!: https://pizziccato.tumblr.com/post/180786497951/translation-masterpost

Fighting with Master Liu extra: http://faelicy.tumblr.com/post/180154270882/a-memory-fighting-succubi-with-master-liu

Partial extra, Honeymoon Daybook: http://faelicy.tumblr.com/post/180396507912/excerpt-from-honeymoon-daybook-a-follow-up

TIAN GUAN CI FU - HEAVEN OFFICIAL’S BLESSING

Novel up to Ch. 15: https://www.sakhyulations.com/novel/heaven-officials-blessing/

Novel Ch. 12 Onwards:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oXnp5Y2OD70i78utu4BcQ3xgAlygypd0

Demon King’s Bed Time Story extra:

http://erushi.tumblr.com/post/181043463415/translation-tgcf-extra-chapter-250-the-demon

Hualian Confession Scene:

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p4pXJ5yxTWQVnYjV8QwmxbFffYr79IFZ5nmlnqlcyU0/edit

Ch. 95 (partial?) 1st(?) kiss: https://mobei-jun.tumblr.com/post/182175962147/okay-so-i-heard-chap-95-of-hob-is-funny-can-i-have

2nd Kiss (Partial Ch.): https://mobei-jun.tumblr.com/post/182257063422/oho-now-i-want-to-know-what-happened-lel-if-its

Ch.108 (partial?): https://mobei-jun.tumblr.com/post/181214476152/tgcf-chapter-108-this-scene-was-way-too-great-but

Ch. 245 extra: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JuSoGjR0d8zbG73XYN4f5vkD-sQEHvcgzdK7LOjLokA/edit

Ch. 246 (amnesia extra):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HljSkZRLqGwi9TA5KSYqB7P5G8l3IGF9OGL3adyeln8/edit

Ch. 252 extra:

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UKJfmg2W1s_abFlub1BAh499XfzQoWA81fFVUSVN8yM/edit

OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST

Scum villain discord: https://discord.gg/dVjM69 (Expiring link, permanent link can be found on MXTX general discord’s partner’s section)

MDZS discord: https://discord.gg/4RpCkxF

HOB discord: https://discord.gg/ecgG9hm

MXTX general discord: https://discord.gg/GUj6PHd

Mo Dao Zu Shi Wiki: http://modao-zushi.wikia.com/wiki/Grandmaster_of_Demonic_Cultivation_-_Founder_of_Diabolism_Wiki

Scum Villain Wiki: http://svs-ss.wikia.com/wiki/The_Scum_Villain%27s_Self-Saving_System_Wiki

HOB Wiki: http://heaven-officials-blessing.wikia.com/wiki/Heaven_Officials_Blessing_Wiki

Hob List of Characters: https://chocolatemix.wordpress.com/2018/11/10/list-of-天官赐福-characters/

MDZS Fancomics: https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/fancomic-translations-for-the-founder-of-diabolism.59559/

Please send me a message if I missed anything, I’ll try to update the post! :D

Please if you don’t want your content to be linked, send me a message and I’ll take the link down ASAP

#mdzs #svsss #HOB

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cats!

#cats #animals

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only good memories, only a longing heart

on the path where you left me

i’ll swallow my tears and at the end of my wait

I will bloom once again

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Lyrics from park hyo shin’s Wildflower

commissions open –> https://forms.gle/EnbPPHsY7CQLLrMr9

#mdzs

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Mo Dao Zu Shi: Why JingYi is the only one with hair that short

Maybe JingYi used to have long hair like a proper Lan. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

(I noticed that JingYi has long hair in the manhua and I couldn’t resist the temptation to draw him with long hair.)

#mdzs #lan sizhui #lan jingyi #lan clan #lan qiren #lan wangji

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me, your friendly neighborhood villain apologist: zuko was never evil he was just 16

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Based on @myahle​ ‘s perfect, perfect tweet, that got me so full of feels and then made me laugh so fucking hard, I had to stop all I was working on and make this!

If you like my art and my ideas, please consider supporting me on Ko-Fi! Here Thank you very much! 

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chucks this overdone concept and runs off

#mdzs

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Dominance Behavior in Canids

I didn’t really even WANT to make a post about this.

The alpha-beta-omega model of wolf packs is dead in scientific literature, hammered into the ground, so to speak, and it’s been dead for over ten years. So why am I still hearing about it on TV and reading about it in articles? Why are popular dog trainers that encourage you to “be the alpha” still taken seriously?

I think the unfortunate truth is that the idea that there are strong and ferocious leaders in wolf packs and that you, too, can take on that role with your dog is just somehow appealing to people. Almost romantic, in the older sense of the word. And because of this, it makes money. It sells werewolf media. It sells dog training classes. Educational science channels that have no business promoting this false ideology keep it on board because it gets people watching.

If you couldn’t tell, I’m pretty fed up with the whole thing.

Okay, let’s talk about dominance, particularly what the word even means, because popular media does a terrible job of explaining it.

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